Pyongyang (10).

Pyongyang.  Hardcover book published by Foreign Languages Publishing House Pyongyang, DPRK 1980.  Text is in English.

The great leader President Kim Il Sung gives on-the-spot guidance at the Pyongyang Textile Mill

General control and generator rooms, Pyongyang Thermal Power Station

General control and generator rooms, Pyongyang Thermal Power Station

Many hydraulic props turned out at the Pyongyang Coal Mining Machine Plant

The “Moranbong” Watch Factory

TV sets assembled

The lithography shop, Foreign Languages Printing Plant

A lab, Pyongyang Medical College

A room for a call on the inpatients on closed-circuit television

Deutsche Demokratische Republik (5).

Deutsche Demokratische Republik.  Hardcover book published by Sachsenverlag Dresden 1959.  All text is in German.  There is a booklet with Russian, English, French and Spanish translations.

The publishing houses of our Republic cultivate the humanistic literature of all countries and promote the development of socialist culture.  Book exhibition in Budapest

The publishing houses of our Republic cultivate the humanistic literature of all countries and promote the development of socialist culture.  Book exhibition in Stockholm

New popular bookshop near the University

Daugavpils.

Daugavpils. Hardcover book with pictorial boards (no dust jacket) published by Avots, Riga 1988.  Text is in Latvian and Russian.

Pilsetas galvena arsta vietniece Lubova Vaivodisa

Hradec Kralove (5)

Hradec Kralove, fotografie Zdenek Menec.  Hardcover book published 1982.  Text is in Czech.

Obchodni dum Prior.

A Hill Region Transformed: Introducing the Pi-Shih-Hang Irrigation System (9)

A Hill Region Transformed: Introducing the Pi-Shih-Hang Irrigation System.  Hardcover book published by Foreign Languages Press Peking 1979.  Text is in English.

Today the mountainous areas support domestic construction with bamboo and other timber, silk, tea, and so on.  Shown here is a forest of China fir.

Medical care comes to the mountainous areas where epidemics were rampant before liberation.  Hospitals and health centres have been set up in all communes and brigades.

Fish are also reared in the reservoir.

Vessels of 100-300 tons navigate the big canals.  Water transport promotes the exchange of goods between city and country and supports industrial and agricultural production.  Show here is a landing-place on the Piho Main Trunk Canal.

A Glance at China’s Economy by Cheng Shih (2).

A Glance at China’s Economy by Cheng Shih.  Paperback book published by Foreign Languages Press, Peking 1974.

At an urban savings bank.

Warszawa 1960 (4)

Warszawa 1960, photographic elaboration by Edmund Kupiecki.  Hardcover book published by Arkady 1960. Text is in Polish and English.

Warsaw Hotel in Powstancow Warszawy Square

Along the Yellow River (4).

Along the Yellow River.  Paperback book published by Foreign Languages Press Peking 1975. (This album is made based on pictures and texts which appeared in China Pictorial between June 1973 and May 1974, with some editorial changes.) Text is in English.

A corner of Lanchow – the biggest industrial city in the upper reaches of the Yellow River.  Before 1958, this section was just empty riverside.

Power transmission network in the suburbs of Lanchow.

In recent years, small factories have mushroomed on the loess plateau.

The Chingtung Gorge power station – a huge key water conservancy project on the Yellow River completed during the Proletarian Cultural Revolution.